Work to begin in summer on damaged part of Steele Station Road

Work should begin this summer on rebuilding and repaving a portion of Steele Station Road that was heavily damaged during the extreme cold weather in January 2010.

BY ANDY POWELLTimes Staff Writer

Work should begin this summer on rebuilding and repaving a portion of Steele Station Road that was heavily damaged during the extreme cold weather in January 2010.The Etowah County Commission at Tuesday’s meeting approved an agreement with the Alabama Department of Transportation for the project that involves a 2.8-mile stretch of Steele Station Road from Pleasant Valley Road to the St. Clair County line.Etowah County Engineer Tim Graves said the project will be bid Feb. 25 by the state and the paving and base repair work has a projected cost of about $678,000.Graves said work likely will begin 75 to 90 days after the bids are opened and the project then would take about 50 working days to complete.He said the project is funded through the Gadsden-Etowah Metropolitan Planning Organization with the county contributing 20 percent of the cost.Graves said the county did some repair work on the road after the damage last year. The project originally had been scheduled as a paving project through the MPO, but was upgraded because of the damage the road suffered.The commission also approved seeking bids for replacing two bridges on Owls Hollow Road near Turkeytown Gap Road.Graves said the commission will provide most of the material and the contract to be bid is for some material and labor. The cost is expected to be about $30,000.The commission approved seeking bids for “bow hunting only” hunting rights for the Little Canoe Creek Industrial Park. The bids will be opened at the March 1 meeting.Sheriff Todd Entrekin told the commission at its work session that Immigration and Custom Enforcement officials recently informed him that ICE is likely to remove its detainees from the county’s detention center in late July.Entrekin said he’s involved in talks with several states and the Alabama Department of Corrections about using that space in the detention center.The commission made two board appointments — Steven Jennings to the West Etowah County Water Authority and Penny Kilgore to the Greater Etowah Mental Retardation 310 Board.

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